[cisco-voip] HA With UCCX

[Mike King]

Having just sat thru a 2 day UCS training session, I'm shocked by the
following requirement:
-ESXi must boot from local disk (on B series)

Because it defeats one of the primary selling points of UCS.

With boot from SAN, you can re-provision a server in less than 1 or 2
minutes, from across the network.

Mike


On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Nick Matthews <matthnick at gmail.com> wrote:
> Guidelines as of now for UC on UCS:
>
> B series - blade servers
> C series - rack mounted servers
>
> B and C series
> -requires VMware (can use free or vsphere licensing)
> -only on Cisco hardware
> -must follow strict OVF template guidelines
> -very few VMware features supported (HA and DR)
> -ESXi 4.0 only
> -ESXi must boot from local disk
>
> B series:
> -SAN only
> --FC only
> -CUCM, Unity, Unity Connection, Presence, PG, and UCCX support
> -Up to 4:1 per B210 blade
> -see www.cisco.com/go/virtualized for details on sizing
>
> C series:
> -currently 1:1
> -CUCM, Unity, and Unity Connection support
> -Direct disk only, no SAN/NAS
> -Will be 4:1 later
> -More apps to come as well
>
>
> Hope that clarifies what could otherwise be a 30 minute presentation.
>
> -nick
>
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Bill <bill at hitechconnection.net> wrote:
>> The last I heard was that it is still dedicated hardware on the 8.x release
>> of the software. 8.1/ 8.5 are going to allow you to run multiple VM's on the
>> same physical server. It is not a matter of if the UCS blade can support it
>> but it is what the design guides are at this point.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Eric Butcher [mailto:Eric.Butcher at cdw.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 10:11 AM
>> To: Bill; 'James Buchanan'; 'H, Tim'; 'Tanner Ezell'
>> Cc: 'cisco-voip'
>> Subject: RE: [cisco-voip] HA With UCCX
>>
>> My understanding was that you didn't have to use a dedicated host for the
>> UCCx VM for HA on UCS, but that you simply couldn't run both UCCx VMs on the
>> same host from a practical standpoint...  Where's the HA in that scenario?
>> I think that's the thinking behind that.
>>
>> You do need dedicated hardware resources, but most of the UC blades for UCS
>> have enough resources to run a CM Sub VM along with the UCCx VM and so on.
>>
>> I don't think those requirements will ever be relaxed, as its only logical
>> design.  Dedicating hardware resources is akin to applying a priority queue
>> to your switching infrastructure for RTP, and the HA VM's running on
>> separate blades or even chasis just makes sense from a hardware redundancy
>> standpoint.  If you're going to call it HA, it should be HA.
>>
>>
>> Eric Butcher
>> Cisco Unified Communications Engineer
>> CDW Professional Services
>> 11711 N Meridian, Ste 225
>> Carmel, IN  46032
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>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
>> [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Bill
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 11:00 AM
>> To: 'James Buchanan'; 'H, Tim'; 'Tanner Ezell'
>> Cc: 'cisco-voip'
>> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] HA With UCCX
>>
>> Of course it does. :) They are going to relax a lot of the requirements
>> around VMware soon but I don't think that is going to be one of them.
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
>> [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of James Buchanan
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 9:54 AM
>> To: H, Tim; Tanner Ezell
>> Cc: cisco-voip
>> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] HA With UCCX
>>
>> Does UCCX also have the requirement to use Cisco UCS as the server platform?
>> I thought it did but may be wrong.
>>
>> James Buchanan | Senior Network Engineer | South Region | Presidio Networked
>> Solutions
>> 12 Cadillac Dr, Suite 130, Brentwood, TN 37027 | jbuchanan at presidio.com
>> D: 615-866-5729 | F: 615-866-5781 | www.presidio.com
>> <http://www.presidio.com> CCIE #25863, Voice
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
>> [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of H, Tim
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 9:40 AM
>> To: Tanner Ezell
>> Cc: cisco-voip
>> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] HA With UCCX
>>
>> Thanks Tanner.  Do you know what the max latency is for version 8.x is
>> between machines?
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tanner Ezell [mailto:tanner.ezell at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 10:38 AM
>> To: H, Tim
>> Cc: cisco-voip
>> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] HA With UCCX
>>
>> HA is only available over the WAN on version 8.x (same for virtualization).
>> If running 7.x or below you'll have to have them located on the same LAN.
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:34 AM, H, Tim <TimH at trstone.com> wrote:
>>> Does these servers have to be in the same physical location, if not,
>> what's
>>> the max latency allowed between them?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> What is the minimum version allowed for them to be virtual?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Tanner Ezell
>>
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